The German-born Venezuelan artist known as Gego (1912-1994) created spare and unequivocally abstract drawings, prints, three-dimensional works, hanging net pieces, and wire constructions of extraordinary quality. Although championed early in her career by Alfred Barr, founder of MoMA, Gego has remained little known outside of Latin America. This exquisitely designed and produced book - presented in both Spanish and English - features Gego's complete oeuvre, which includes over four hundred prints and drawings as well as three-dimensional works. Born Gertrud Goldschmidt in Hamburg, Germany, Gego studied architecture and engineering before emigrating to Venezuela in 1939 to escape the rise of Nazism. With firm grounding in the universal laws and language of physics, she devoted her artistic career to exploring the line. Her unique geometric understandings were expressed in configurations of various materials that allowed viewers to enter an unlimited, fascinating space of perceptual interaction.
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Distributed for the Fundación Cisneros, Caracas, Venezuela
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Contributors to this book are Iris Peruga, María Elena Ramos, Josefina Núñez, Luis Pérez Oramas, Mónica Amor, Ruth Auerbach, and Guadalupe Montenegro.
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1 De modo cada vez mas evidente, la obra de Gego aparece hoy como una de las mas creativas, originales y conmovedoras de nuestro pais. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Museo de Bellas Artes, Nueva York, Museo de Arte, Gerd Leufert, Untitled Etching, Everson Museum, Ruth Auerbach, Facultad de Arquitectura, Lourdes Blanco, Untitled Watercolor, Alte Oper, Estados Unidos, Lygia Clark, Miguel Arroyo, Artist Proof, Buckminster Fuller, New York, Paul Klee, Rosalind Krauss, Eva Hesse, Metro de Caracas, Untitled Steel, Centro Comercial, Donald Judd, Guadalupe Montenegro New!
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1 De modo cada vez mas evidente, la obra de Gego aparece hoy como una de las mas creativas, originales y conmovedoras de nuestro pais. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Museo de Bellas Artes, Nueva York, Museo de Arte, Gerd Leufert, Untitled Etching, Everson Museum, Ruth Auerbach, Facultad de Arquitectura, Lourdes Blanco, Untitled Watercolor, Alte Oper, Estados Unidos, Lygia Clark, Miguel Arroyo, Artist Proof, Buckminster Fuller, New York, Paul Klee, Rosalind Krauss, Eva Hesse, Metro de Caracas, Untitled Steel, Centro Comercial, Donald Judd, Guadalupe Montenegro New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Nueva York (Spanish Edition) by Eduardo Mendoza on 4 pages
- Beyond Craft: The Art Fabric by Mildred Constantine on 4 pages
- Passages in Modern Sculpture by Rosalind E. Krauss on page 226, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Order in Space: A Design Source Book (A Studio Book) by Keith Critchlow on page 248, and Back Matter
- Donald Judd by Barbara Haskell on page 231, and Back Matter
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